Posted by JahL on April 21, 2001, at 10:06:40
In reply to Re: sparse posting on PSB?, posted by mist on April 20, 2001, at 23:59:15
> > Aren't all sites equally public?
This is the only board I use (not the chatty sort); I'm generally a little internet-naive. By 'public' I was referring to the huge volume of traffic here (1 million hits a month!), and the fact that psychobabble is placed so highly on certain search engines. We're talking accessibility here; the messages are the first thing to hit you whereas message boards on some other sites are discretely tucked away.
> > The Psycho-Babble boards seems more solution-oriented. Like people are looking for answers, and most of the posters are well-informed.
This is probably nearer the answer; Psychobabble was set up primarily as an information exchange & is probably still seen as such.
> > I have a lot of empathy for anyone with depression but sometimes when people just post hopeless, desperate messages week after week as is common on other sites I've visited, it threatens to drag me down with them. Some of that is understandable but for me it's difficult to take if it happens too much and there aren't enough of other kinds of posts to relieve it.
Same. The altruist in me wld like to respond (on Socialbabble) but I have enough depression of my own & could do w/o sharing in others difficulties. Med talk is different; it (at least here) greatly increases my chances of recovery, the end game after all.
J.
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